Impersonals and other Agent Defocusing Constructions in French

Name: Impersonals and other Agent Defocusing Constructions in French
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Impersonals and other Agent Defocusing Constructions in French
Editorial page
Title page
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Table of contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Narrow and broad impersonals: Definitions and scope of analysis
1. Beyond structural analyses
2. Toward a French impersonal functional category
3. The French impersonal category
4. A constructional proposal
5. Recapitulation and discussion
6. Outline of the following chapters
Chapter 2. A cognitive approach to French impersonals
Chapter 3. The semantic range of impersonals
Chapter 4. Simple impersonals: Patterns of usage
Chapter 5. Complex impersonals
Chapter 6. Demonstrative (ça) impersonals
Chapter 7. Middle (se) impersonals
Chapter 8. Indefinite (on, ils) impersonals
Chapter 9. Recapitulation and conclusion
7. A note on the methodology and data
Chapter 2. A cognitive approach to French impersonals
1. A symbolic view of language
1.1 Conceptual semantics
1.2 The conceptual base of clause structure
1.3 The prototypical coding of clause structure: The transitive clause
2. Defocusing strategies
2.1 Alternative trajector selection
2.2 Identification and delimitation
3. Grammatical constructions
4. Recapitulation and conclusion
Chapter 3. The semantic range of il impersonals
1. Introduction
2. Simple and complex impersonals
3. Status of impersonal il
3.1 "Dummy" il?
3.2 The field
3.3 Semantics and Information structure
4. The semantic range of simple impersonals
4.1 Distribution of predicates with simple impersonals
4.2 Presence of the setting in the predicates' lexical semantic structure
4.3 Comparison with structural accounts
5. Recapitulation and conclusion
Chapter 4. Simple impersonals: Patterns of usage
1. Introduction
2. Usage and grammar
2.1 Usage and idioms
2.2 The core and periphery of simple impersonal usage
3. The core: Existential predicates
3.1 Exister
3.2 Relative existence: Rester and manquer
3.2.1 Rester
3.2.2 Manquer
3.3 Recapitulation
4. Il y a: Existence and location
4.1 Existence
4.2 Location
4.3 The field
5. The periphery: Arriver, venir, passer
5.1 Arriver
5.2 Venir
5.3 Passer
6. Recapitulation: Simple impersonals
Chapter 5. Complex impersonals
1. Introduction. Complex impersonals: Forms and functions
2. Epistemic evaluation: Reality, events, and propositions
3. The complex impersonal domain
4. Complement forms: Events and proposition
5. Predicates, events, and propositions
5.1 Deontic predicates
5.2 Evaluative predicates
5.3 Epistemic predicates
5.4 Occurrence predicates
5.5 Recapitulation
6. Impersonal passives
7. Recapitulation and conclusion
Chapter 6. Demonstrative impersonals
1. Introduction: Il and ça impersonals
2. Semantic function of demonstratives: Identification, categorization, and evaluation
3. Semantic properties of demonstratives
3.1 Ça and flexible reference
3.2 A subjective construal of the referent
3.3 Ça has no strict cataphoric sense
4. Two impersonal constructions in the copular complement construction
5. Distribution of il and ça impersonals
5.1 Il and ça in Les mandarins
5.2 Vrai
6. Recapitulation and conclusion
Chapter 7. Middle impersonals
1. Introduction
2. French pronominal verbs
2.1 Constructions neutres and moyennes
2.2 The French "middle domain"
3. From spontaneous events to impersonals
3.1 Two main groups of predicates
3.2 Conceptual structure of the two classes
3.3 Generality and responsibility
4. Two impersonal constructions
5. Discussion
6. Recapitulation and conclusion
Chapter 8. Indefinite impersonals
1. Introduction
2. Pronouns and other nominals: Semantic functions
2.1 Layered semantic functions
2.2 Grounding: Subjectivity and dynamicity
2.3 Pronouns as nominals
2.4 On: Minimal specification
3. Patterns of use: From personal to indefinite
4. Indefinite impersonals
4.1 Minimal delimitation by homogenization
4.2 Delimitation by generalization of individual experience (virtualization)
5. Recapitulation and conclusion
Chapter 9. Concluding remarks
1. Recapitulation
2. Do we need a French impersonal class?
3. Advantages of the analysis
References
Index

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